Birmingham Cognitive Screening for Assessment of Cognitive Profile

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Do Younger Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Huntington’s Disease have Different Psychometric Profiles on the Birmingham Cognitive Screen?

• IRAS ID

  137401

• Contact name

  Peter Bentham

• Contact email

  peter.bentham@bsmht.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation NHS Trust

• Research summary

  Birmingham Cognitive Screen (BCoS) is used to test various aspects of memory in patients with cognitive impairment; it is currently being used to test cognition in stroke patients. It will help indicate whether patient has impairment in various aspects of cognition including language difficulties, executive functions like planning and organising skills, inability to respond to the environment through words or action, and difficulty dealing with everyday problems.
  This study aims to compare performance on the BCOS in four clinical groups of younger patients with mild memory deficits or mild dementia, to determine whether scores significantly differ between the groups, testing primarily the following hypotheses:
  1) Subjects with AD will have significantly worse performance on the memory domain than the FTD dementia group as evidenced by failing more memory tasks.
  2) Subjects with HD will have significantly worse performance on the attentional / executive function domain than the MCI-AD group as evidenced by failing more attentional /executive tasks.
  3) Subjects in the FTD dementia group will have significantly worse performance on the attentional / executive and language domains than the AD group as evidenced by failing more attentional /executive and language tasks.
  4) Subjects in the MCI-AD group will have significantly worse performance on the memory domain than the HD group as evidenced by failing more memory tasks

• REC name

  West Midlands - Black Country Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/WM/0100

• Date of REC Opinion

  21 May 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion